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Job 14:11
“As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אָזַלʼâzal · aw-zal'
H235 · Hebrew
H235 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to go away, hence, to disappear
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- fail, gad about, go to and fro (but in Ezekiel 27:19 the word is rendered by many 'from Uzal,' by others 'yarn'), be gone (spent).
- Grammar
- אָֽזְלוּ — verb Qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 5 times in the Hebrew Bible.Deuteronomy 32:361 Samuel 9:7Proverbs 20:14Jeremiah 2:36
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אָזַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.